They did not expect to have this amount of resistance, A, from the so-called irregulars, the Saddam Fedayeen that we've been talking about, those special militias that were created by the regime to control internal, to enforce internal repression and to control internal dissent.

Some of them stayed because they were afraid they would be arrested when they went outside, or shot at, because they are part of the Palestinian police or had been part of what we could call irregulars, fighting militia brigades.

Whatever happened to the idea that we would express our grave concerns about the occupancy of a portion of those territories by Al Qaeda and Taliban 'irregulars' and our continued support to the Pakistani efforts to hunt down and capture them, or push them back into Afghanistan were we are legitimately engaged in actions against them?